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The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves)

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Publication Wu et al. (2026): taxonomic opinions
     publication summary | cladograms

Complete Citation

Wu, R., X. Wang, X. Hu, F. Nan, X. Liu et al. 2026. Integrative taxonomic reappraisal and molecular phylogeny of freshwater mussels of the genus Lanceolaria (Bivalvia: Unionidae), with description of two new species. Zoologica Scripta: 1-24. Available electronically.

Taxonomic Opinions

Acudonta baitiaoensis

Aculamprotula coreana = Scriptolamprotula coreana

Aculamprotula polysticta = Scriptolamprotula polysticta

Aculamprotula scripta = Scriptolamprotula scripta

Aculamprotula tientsinensis = Scriptolamprotula tientsinensis

Aculamprotula tortuosa = Scriptolamprotula tortuosa

Alasmidonta varicosa

Amuranodonta kijaensis

Anemina arcaeformis = Anemina harlandi

Anodonta anatina

Anodonta cygnea

Anodonta exulcerata

Beringiana fukuharai

Buldowskia shadini

Cristaria beirensis = Cristaria plicata

Cristaria plicata

Cristaria truncata

Cuneopsis celtiformis

Cuneopsis celtiosimilis

Cuneopsis heudei

Cuneopsis kiangsiensis

Cuneopsis rufescens

Cuneopsis szechenyii

Gibbosula rochechouartii (Heude, 1875)

Lamprotula leaii (Gray, 1833)

Lanceolaria acrorrhyncha (Martens, 1894)

Lanceolaria bilirata (Martens, 1902)

Lanceolaria danzhouensis sp. nov.
+ Lanceolaria grayii Lopes-Lima et al., 2017
+ Lanceolaria bilirata Lopes-Lima et al., 2020

Lanceolaria fruhstorferi (Dautzenberg, 1900)
+ Lanceolaria bogani Thach, 2016

Lanceolaria gladiola

Lanceolaria grayii (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
+ Unio grayanus Lea, 1834
+ Nodularia cylindrica Simpson, 1900
+ Unio grayanus Schrenck, 1867
+ Lanceolaria chankensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Lanceolaria maacki Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Lanceolaria ussuriensis Moskvicheva, 1973
+ Lanceolaria (Pericylindrica) bogatovi Zatravkin & Starobogatov, 1984
+ Lanceolaria eucylindrica Lin, 1962
+ Lanceolaria yueyingae He & Zhuang, 2013

Lanceolaria helianthoides Wu & An, sp. nov.

Lanceolaria hoabinhensis Thach, 2025

Lanceolaria kihirai Kondo & Hattori, 2019

Lanceolaria laevis (Martens, 1902)

Lanceolaria lanceolata (Lea, 1856)
+ Unio contortus var. muticus Heude, 1877
+ Arconaia huaihensis Huang & Li, 2003

Lanceolaria oxyrhyncha (Martens, 1861)
+ Lanceolaria grayii Sano et al., 2017

Lanceolaria tagaropoppeorum Thach, 2025

Lanceolaria triformis (Heude, 1877)

Lasmigona complanata = Pterosyna complanata

Lepidodesma aligera

Lepidodesma languilati

Margaritifera margaritifera (Linnaeus, 1758)

Middendorffinaia mongolica

Nodularia douglasiae

Nodularia dualobtusus = Nodularia dualobtusa

Nodularia fusiformans

Nodularia guiensis

Nodularia hanensis

Platynaias compressa

Pletholophus guangzhouensis

Potomida littoralis (Cuvier, 1798)

Prolasmidonta heterodon

Pseudanodonta complanata

Pseudocuneopsis capitata

Pseudocuneopsis sichuanensis

Pseudocuneopsis wuana

Pseudocuneopsis yangshuoensis

Pyganodon grandis

Schistodesmus lampreyanus

Schistodesmus luqiaoensis

Schistodesmus spinosus (Simpson, 1900)

Schistodesmus tongpenensis

Schistodesmus xinyuensis Hou & Wu, 2025

Sinanodonta lauta

Sinanodonta lucida

Sinanodonta pacifica

Sinanodonta schrenkii

Sinanodonta tumens

Sinanodonta woodiana

Tchangsinaia piscicula

Unio carneus

Unio crassus

Unio elongatulus

Unio tumidus

Utterbackia imbecillis

Utterbackia peninsularis

 
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